Sentences with phrase «to swim against the tide»

The highly - desirable standards agenda is therefore swimming against the tides of several other governance pressures, each of which has its own valid claims.

Increasing profitability to free up cash flow can seem like swimming against the tide when every month you have to pay suppliers and employees money that could've otherwise been counted as profit.

When widely held opinions have no influence on the issue at hand, nothing is gained by swimming against the tide.

Self published authors swim against the tide and it's only a matter of time before they get beaten and give up.

There are still so many obstacles, feeling like swimming against the tide, but reading your posts gives me a good push to continue.

Bourke is also swimming against the tide because these laws will undoubtedly lead to more Aboriginal people being thrown into prison.

Like, «you can not swim against the tide» on this one or my personal favorite «we can not put the genie back in the bottle,» but the fact is Uber has changed the game.

It's choosing to swim against the tide for the company (not to mention a recent article from our print publication), since modern convention dictates that you can work from just about anywhere.

By GEORGINA FERRY Swim against the tide in medical research, and your colleagues may regard you with suspicion.

At the country level Czech Bond Funds swam against the tide sweeping money out to Emerging Europe Funds.

There were false prophets saying peace peace in Israel's history and only a brave few that swam against the tide with warnings of something quite different — that Israel was apostate and about to face judgement which came to be true.

He was quite conscious that «a Catholicintellectual must be ready to swim against the tide which will flow against him until the end of time».

In a sea of corporate - run movie theater chains, Malco Theaters Inc. has effectively swum against the tide.

But with an economy still struggling to recover, rent control laws due to expire in New York City and a tax cap wanted by a large portion of the public, Senate Democrats may be trying to swim against the tide on the issue.

Austria, Denmark and Germany scrapped wealth taxes in 1997 and several other European countries have followed suit, it seems bizarre that in Britain we are considering swimming against the tide.

Recently discovered remains suggest these species swam against the tide of increasing body size through time.

But I'm swimming against the tide here; school districts represent nine out of every 10 authorizers, though they authorize relatively few schools.

American education doesn't need a few dozen superintendents gamely swimming against the tide, but tens of thousands of competent superintendents, principals, and administrators working in tandem.

Regular readers of PS3 Attitude will know, that to say I enjoyed Final Fantasy XIII is a massive understatement; in fact, I even swam against the tide and described it as «one of my favourite games of all time» at the end of 2010.

This idea swims against a tide that has been gathering strength since the post-war period, when artists began to work seriously at shrinking that separation between art (that is aesthetic intervention) and life (the everyday, social relations that describe what this exhibition regards as our supposed purgatory in contrast to a heaven of artistic concerns).

Franklin was swimming against the tide because insurance companies dominated the middle class investing markets, but Charlie was convinced that he had a good story to tell.

Magath and Solskjaer proved themselves incapable of swimming against the tide of two troubled clubs and paid the usual, predictable price.

Despite the lackluster sales of its e-reader, Sahin still feels that digital is the future and that «you can not swim against the tide».

If the theology of the Hartford Appeal — with its conventional theism, careful political neutrality and total lack of christological content — represents the trend of the «70s, then I'll be glad to swim against the tide for a while.

With the Fed signaling a rate hike, policymakers would be swimming against the tide of central bank accommodation around the world.

The report made for good reading, to be sure, but with the stock trading near an all - time high going into the release, it was unable to climb further and swim against the tide of profit taking that ensnared the broader market on this particular day.

For those who are swimming against the tide of Crypto you are fighting progress.

Keenly aware that he is swimming against the tide, Flannagan,...

I've learned that whatever our culture is doing, it can be hard to be a lone voice and swim against the tide.

It's always hard to swim against the tide, and in the debate on homosexual lifestyle it feels, at times, more like a tsunami.»

True, but the GOP are swimming against the tide.

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Yes it takes courage to swim against the tide, to make decisions that are not aligned with what appear to be community values, to take a risk and decide that our children are better served by being protected than by being pushed.

I'm not proud of this story but I'm sharing it to let all of you know that even someone like me, with strong views on the subject of junk food in schools, can be cowed by the prospect of swimming against the tide.

Swimming against the tide, Fraga managed to support democratisation without formally breaking with Francoism, in order to unite all middle class and conservatives and also attract Francoists to democracy.

«While we congratulate the Lagos Governor Emeritus on his birthday, the PDP considers it needful, to forewarn him to study the current ambience of Nigerian politics as it relates to the failures of the Buhari Presidency and the fact that the citizens have since rejected this Presidency and the APC, so that Asiwaju will not find himself swimming against the tide.»

Politically speaking, Ms. Nixon is swimming against the tide.

Tony Benn's life seems defined by an almost stubborn desire to swim against the tide.

Writing in The Guardian, the Labour former leadership challenger Owen Smith said he was prepared to «swim against the tide».

I was swimming against the tide, but the challenge was fun and I remained determined.

As before, it still feels like I am swimming against the tide, but also, as before, meeting the challenges is fun.

Since the animals were first listed as endangered, the human population of Florida has more than tripled, meaning that rescue efforts are swimming against the tide.

As someone who, swimming against the tide, doesn't care much for french comedies, imagine my surprise to find «Heartbreaker» so damn entertaining.